Louisville Male High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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1938 Senior Class Officers BILL RUPP HUNT CRAWFORD President Vice-President WESLEY CUNNINGHAM JIM BISHOP Treasurer Secretary RUSSEL GRESHAM BILL TYLER Historian Sgt.-at-Arms BILLY WOODS BOB BREIDENTHAL Prophet Poet Q Class of1938 Prophecy Come let us reason together. Let us turn back to the happy days when we were carefree students at Dear Old Male High, laughing and joking between classes and planning what to do after school was out. We had no Worries other than small ones which were but trilies, when we stop to think of them now. While we are looking into the past, let us stop to think what was accomplished in those three years: There is no question that the guidance which we received has benefited us greatly. In Whatever field we have ventured, it is easy to see how Male High graduates outshine the others. This is because in our high school career we came into possession of one of the greatest things obtainable. It is an invulnerable bond of friendship that binds us together as nothing else can. Well, we cannot live over the past indefinitely, for as time moves on, so must we. I must get up from my warm reclining chair by the open fireplace which overlooks Lake Nancy, near Minong, Wisconsin, and get ready to leave for Louisville. There, I shall once more join my fellow classmates in a reunion. I am planning 'to fly to Chicago where I will meet BEN BOONE who is playing professional ball with the Cubs, and JIM BISHOP who landed a job some years ago with Petty of 'tEsquirel' fame. He has The Bulldog

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1'-few During 'the midyear exams, that catastrophe came which will not be completely forgotten when these pages are yellow with age- The Flood of IQ37.H After this deluge most of our classrooms on the first Hoor were unusable. In order to be able to follow our regular class schedule in the limited number of undamaged rooms, it was necessary to add an extra period to the school day. Our athletic endeavors in the spring, despite the fact that much equipment was damaged, went on unabated. Although the significance of better seats during chapel exercises was anticipated with anything but sadness, we could not help but think of the last group of hazy-eyed Seniors marching out during '4Honor Dayn exercises. Finding, when we came back as Seniors, the corridors full of mere children, we shook our heads in desperation over the plight of our schoolis future, for, though we had been at Male but two years, we could not remember the time when we looked so immature. To start the year off with a 1bang,'l our class president, William Rupp, led Male through its most successful football season in history, despite all preseason prognostications by eminent sports writers and professors in calculus to the contrary. The climax of all this, of course, was trimming Manual 25 to 2.0, as well as putting St. Xavier in place I3 to 6 after their two year reign. A short time thereafter we lost our pudgy Georgian, Wallace Butts, to the University of Georgia. The basketball team Went through the season with a fair amount of success, and as this goes to press we have reason to hope for a successful season in track and baseball. Proud are we to say that our accomplishments have not 'been conifined only to athletics. The rejuvenation of HThe Halleck Literary Society was due directly to the hard work of so-me of the members of our class. In the field of music we have rated very high. The members of the Glee Club, individually and collectively, have Won high rankings in the state contests, while the Band and Orchestra have kept pace. Among the honors given our Band was that of being a charter member of the recently organ- ized National Band and Orchestra Honor Societyf' In all of us who have chosen military training at Male, there will linger a fond memory of Colonel H. L. Jordan, Professor of Military Science and Tactics, who, after a short period of illness, was transferred to a recruiting post in New Jersey. In closing, I wish to say that I think none of us regrets the hours spent f-or Male, for in us has been deeply em-bedded the 'fHigh School Spiritfl In our stay wel feel we have done our part and look back with satisfaction on what we have accomplished. To you Juniors and Sophomores, as well as the many others coming in later, we leave with you this parting word which was our motto as Sophomores, It is not the size of the dog in the iight but the size of the fight in the dog. -Russel Gresham. Pi. -qpqxx' V .I X' . 4 ,H - ' x. X. Q ' L I , xg? 2 , ' if . t , al X Ai ' ' ' v . 'H ' ,A .1 I WV K ' I , ,M Seventeen Male High '38

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since become quite a distinguished figure in the art world Cfor menj, I have been in- formed. After a little hurried preparation and a few hours of sleep, I was on my way to be once more with my classmates of many years past. The trip to Chicago took but a few hours, and on arrival I was greeted by BEN who enlightened me on many things. BILL RUPP, he told us, is coaching football at Indiana University, and because an addition to the family is expected soon, he will be unable to be on hand. CWe hope it's a b-oyb. Presently cynic Cas alwaysj BISHOP came up in the same old slow, drawn out manner, showing that he hadn't changed a bit. He had but little to add to what BEN had told me since we had been talking about two hours. He -did, however, tell me that WHITNEY OIBANNON and HARRELD DE MUNBRUN were in town last week playing in the National Golf Tournament. The stewardess informed us that the plane for Louisville left in five minutes, so we postponed our conversation until we were seated on the plane. I learned a few minutes after we were off the ground that the old Male High Spirit still lived in the boys, by the way BEN and JIM would look when the stewardess would pass our seat. When she would not interrupt us by passing our seat, we kept the conversation going by a wide range of subjects. The plane arrived at three-fifteen and upon emerging, who should I see but ADDISON LEE Cwho now has an Addison Lee, IV j,, who has succeeded his father as chairman of the air board, I later learned. He has done wonders, I could see, by having the field completely surfaced and by providing seventeen hang-ers for the south side of the field. He gave us a hardy welcome which meant a great deal to us strayed northerners, and he took us in town. On our way to town, we stopped to look at a wreck. On inquiring we found that the driver of the truck which exceeded the speed limit had side-swiped an o-ld Buick which looked familiar even after all these years..We listened to first one conversation and then another, and with what we could put togeth-er, we learned that the old open job belonged to HARREL NEWTON TAGUE fwho just finished putting out his seventy-fifth 'fBulldog'lJg and the driver of the truck was BUDDY MENDEL, who was a little on the high side. After a half an hour of hurried livinjg over the past, we reached the hotel where we had made reservation through JACK BLAND who, through his personality, has obtained the position of manager. He told us the boys were coming in from everywhere. BUCK SOUTHARD came in last rom New York with BEN F INNEGAN , whom he met in Cincinnati. BILL KIMMEL, the only one of the old class to represent us in Hollywood, the is photographing a big job there, jimmy Fiddler tells mel, will be in on the late plane this afternoon, and UDADIEH MEN EFEE, who is manager of one of the branches of his father's paint company in South America, will be in a little later. A big commotion in the lobby which interrupted our conversation resulted in the appearance of OWEN GORE, who was passing rout tips on the ponies to all who would listen. OWEN, relieving himself of the hilarious group, approached a more dignified person who had just entered, anud turned out to be none other than DICK SPEIDEL, who is running for United States Senator, come next November, sporting a six-inch cigar, whose smoke practically obscured OWEN S flashy attire. At the point of greeting, they were met by L. HERRIMANN whose lot it had fallen to eject from the lobby all supersaturated alumni. The evening passed rapidly and part of the morning slipped in before I found my way to my room to drop my tired bones. Investigating a heavy thump which fell on the door quite early, I found BILL TYLER fwho had just been made a Kentucky Colonel for inventing a new kind of mint julep-TYLER juleplj looking as well as ever. He had dropped by the hotel to pay me a visit and talk over old times. We went Male igh '38